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delacourtings) wrote2024-02-11 02:56 pm
delacourtings) wrote2024-02-11 02:56 pm
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[resource] the queer liberation library
on occassion, depending on how you use it, and who you follow, tiktok can actually be useful. i recently found about the queer liberation library via my fyp (which is suprising because i seem to be one of the few people the algorithm can't quite figure out. probably because i mostly just watch the people i follow.)
anyway, the queer liberation library is "a queer digital library that makes queer literature, information, and resources available to our library members across the united states."
you have to apply to be a member and the application requires your first and last name (these do not have to be your legal names) and check a box confirming you have a u.s. mailing address (you do not have to provide this address). i believe i applied tuesday night and received my approval email wednesday but they've gone a bit viral on tiktok and have had an influx of over 10k new members so it might take a bit longer if you apply now. looking at my libby, i believe you get 3 loans and 7 holds at a time.
i'm very lucky that my local library has a decent amount of queer fiction but it's not quite as well stocked on the nonfiction front. i currently use libby and hoopla through my library, as well as paying for kindle unlimited and everand (formerly known as scribd), and i was really pleased to see that QLL had some harder to find titles (at least, titles that are harder to find for me, in ebook/audio format) such as queer poets of color, black girl, call home, postcolonial love poem, we both laughed in pleasure, we have always been here, lesbian love story, how to survive a plague, odd girls and twilight lovers, and burning my roti, just to name a few. they also have quite a few literary, comics/graphic novels, manga, poetry, and indie and small press releases that my library does not. this is in addition to some of the more popular/saturated queer lit you're probably aware of.
like a regular library, membership is free but they do rely on donations to keep running, so if you do become a member, donate if you can!
i'm so glad to see something like this exist, especially in this age of book banning and anti queer and trans legislation, and especially as someone living in georgia.
note: book titles link to goodreads because i don't like storygraph. i tried! i don't like it! you can't make me! sorry!
anyway, the queer liberation library is "a queer digital library that makes queer literature, information, and resources available to our library members across the united states."
you have to apply to be a member and the application requires your first and last name (these do not have to be your legal names) and check a box confirming you have a u.s. mailing address (you do not have to provide this address). i believe i applied tuesday night and received my approval email wednesday but they've gone a bit viral on tiktok and have had an influx of over 10k new members so it might take a bit longer if you apply now. looking at my libby, i believe you get 3 loans and 7 holds at a time.
i'm very lucky that my local library has a decent amount of queer fiction but it's not quite as well stocked on the nonfiction front. i currently use libby and hoopla through my library, as well as paying for kindle unlimited and everand (formerly known as scribd), and i was really pleased to see that QLL had some harder to find titles (at least, titles that are harder to find for me, in ebook/audio format) such as queer poets of color, black girl, call home, postcolonial love poem, we both laughed in pleasure, we have always been here, lesbian love story, how to survive a plague, odd girls and twilight lovers, and burning my roti, just to name a few. they also have quite a few literary, comics/graphic novels, manga, poetry, and indie and small press releases that my library does not. this is in addition to some of the more popular/saturated queer lit you're probably aware of.
like a regular library, membership is free but they do rely on donations to keep running, so if you do become a member, donate if you can!
i'm so glad to see something like this exist, especially in this age of book banning and anti queer and trans legislation, and especially as someone living in georgia.
note: book titles link to goodreads because i don't like storygraph. i tried! i don't like it! you can't make me! sorry!
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I really don't understand book banning. If you don't want to read it, don't. If you don't want your kids to read it, go with them to the library and oversee what they check out. It's not rocket science.
:/
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